NO, NO, NO - not yet more senseless war

Simon Tisdall: Bush 'spoiling for a fight' with Iran
in Guardian daily comment, Guardian Unlimited

The above gives the British/European sense of the latest bushbaby playpen danger facing the world, a prospect, which if realized, will render all our lives LESS secure and foment MORE terrorism and INCREASE support for fundamentalists while again diminishing any belief among those people we need so desperately to enlighten that rights and justice are of any importance to the US or its friends.

And here is the cogent view Auntie Times has on the issue, also frightened as hell:

Bullying Iran

As ever, the one tactic the administration is refusing to consider is diplomacy. Mr. Bush has resisted calls to convene a meeting of Iraq’s neighbors to discuss ways to contain the crisis. There is no guarantee that Mr. Ahmadinejad can be persuaded that Iraq’s further implosion is not in Iran’s interest. But others in Tehran may have clearer heads. And any hope of driving a wedge between Iran and Syria will have to start by giving Damascus hope that there is a way in from the cold.
Mr. Bush’s bullying may play well to his ever shrinking base. But his disastrous war in Iraq has done so much damage to America’s credibility — and so strained its resources— that it no longer frightens America’s enemies. The only ones really frightened are Americans and America’s friends.